It does work. I actually use a plain vegetable oil on my sink and faucet as part of the final cleaning process. But it’s important to use just a tiny bit, rub the oil in, and then buff it OFF with a clean towel. It doesn’t leave any residue that way
@@84rinne_moo thank you for the clarification! The only stainless steel I have is a trash can I just bought after the injured and starving street cat I just rescued knocked over the white trash can that matches my appliances 😂 he was going after the chicken remains from the chicken dinner I had just cooked. So I put him in his room and went straight out to buy a heavier trash can with a firmly sealed lid that he can't get into. But all I could think was that the stainless looks pretty now and will look like trash in a week. The baby oil trick sounded intriguing, but I wondered if it wouldn't just pick up more dust and grime. I think I'll try Skin-So-Soft oil using your technique and see what happens. Being that it's a trash can, there's a chance that vegetable oil would go rancid and make it stink. Thank you again for the tip!
@@anneonnamouse5496 some people still care about their things, if newsprint comes off on your white cabinets you cannot get it off- they’re no longer perfect. This matters if you’re renting, this matters to some folks if they own their home. If you wanted to install new cabinets in your home and sell your cabinets to recoup some money then you’d want to make sure they were pristine. If you were going to sell your home you’d want to make sure this isn’t something the potential new owner could notice and ask that you pay to fix, or as a reason to reduce your sales price. If you’re someone that cares enough to dust and even do this in the first place, I’m sure you’d want to be aware of this in addition to this hack rather than trying it and finding out the hard way. As someone who owns a rental unit I certainly hope none of my tenants ever think like this, and rather are just grateful for knowledge like this…. You can get newsprint that has yet to be printed on from the local newspaper, but you can save kraft paper from shipping boxes, or cut grocery bags and make sure and lay them print side up. So, for anyone reading this, I commented this as an FYI, not to be “rude,” and some of y’all^ need to touch grass and recognize that everything isn’t an attack or argument and defensiveness can really prevent general conversation & discussion and learning from and about one another.
@@esseaem1451 hmm,you do make a good point. The last rental I moved in had a fur carpet growing up there it seemed the ppl never cleaned where they couldn't see. You know I scrubbed it tip top before move in. I put newspapers up there but never considered the ink would transfer. They are just cheap IKEA cabinets at least. Previous rentals had old wallpaper? Contact paper? I think up there and in cupboards. 🤔
@@anneonnamouse5496 yeah we’ve used contact paper at our beach house- it does lift ok (sometimes) I try to use nonstick stuff in spaces I think I may need to replace it though. In theory you’re 100% correct- you cannot see it so more than likely it doesn’t matter. AND, there are some folks who would totally be distraught if they ruined their white cabinets like this…..if you’re in a rental now I’d just pretend you never saw it ;).
@@esseaem1451 I will for sure be mindful of it in future ones. The landlord currently plans on knocking this house down and building his dream house to retire in on the lot in a few years so he doesn't care too much what happens. 😉
I use Dawn for everything and it works great…. If I need to disinfect I use 30 % rubbing alcohol and distilled water at a 30 to 70 rate and all is great!
@@randomsandra4039 I agree. When a few oil tankers lost oil in the seas years ago, the waterfowl were greasy and dying due to oil in the water. The emergency rescue workers used Dawn on the ducks 🙂
Tip: when making lemonade, or anything that requires lemons, don’t throw them away. Instead create designated container and store in the freezer for future cleaning needs.
Also as a professional cleaner- if you have a jacuzzi bath tub drop several denture tablets in and run it. It’s disturbing what is in those jets. They also clean toilets really well too!
Stainless steel knives tend to get small rust spots if they’re not dried off immediately after washing/hang around in the dishwasher after running. No one is throwing away Global knives for a couple of tiny rust spots!
So the only thing about this is that cloth attracts dust and you’d need to wash them more often than you’d need to take these down and either dust them off or recycle them, but yes, you could basically get a bunch of them, change them every 4-6 days, keep them bagged somewhere, and then wash monthly. It would require a lot- but this is what we do with our napkins, paper towels, and cotton swabs/cotton pads. I keep a sorting laundry bin with bags (to keep any sort of smell neutral/trapped 🤪) where we keep all of these things and some get a bi-weekly, and some get s monthly wash depending.
@@Deci_Bella because they’re cloth, they’re going to collect a lot more, and it’s gross AF, you could let it go longer but in a kitchen where you’re cooking they’re also going to grab oil, and moisture and there will be WAY MORE shit up there than the surfaces you can see- and it’s in your kitchen. Just because you cannot see it doesn’t mean it’s not absolutely disgusting.
@@esseaem1451you should really just mind your business and quit trying to correct everyone’s ideas and assuming all of your’s are right. It’s not your home, it’s their’s. Keep your controlling toxicity to yourself. Clean your own home the way you will, congrats. & unless you’re going to produce your own helpful content on here to HELP people, don’t spam your ideas & perfectionism & control on someone ELSE’S content, it’s also not yours😉
@@esseaem1451 Great, more dust on the runners and less on the counters and shelves. Where do you think the dust would otherwise go? An alternative dimension?
@@brownsugar5974 how long should the mix be left on whites for? Is it effective on food stains and armpit stains? (I struggle with getting these out of clothes.)
@@_s.4 i put on salt little bit of water nd i wash it right away i never tried it on an old stain so i dont know if it will work or not but it doesnt hurt to try
@@sjohnson65456 well to be fair, yea I typically use vegetable oil, not baby oil. But I do use this method on my stainless steel sink at the very end when giving it a deep clean. The oil helps to clean off additional grime, shines it up, and protects it for a while. You use a tiny TIIIIIINY (I mean tiny!) bit and rub it in with a paper towel or something. Then buff it off with a clean dry towel. Kinda like when you do car wax. If you had problems with it, you didn’t do it right.
The newspaper sounds good, but not many people get a newspaper anymore. I did for nearly 40 years, but it got so thin, they quit printing them on Mondays and the subscription price kept going up. subscription subscription subscription
Sandy Hearn I miss the way they were as well. Used to buy the paper Saturday to have it first thing Sunday for crosswords & coffee and peruse the glossy sales flyers before I read the rest of it. The best writers left when someone took over our paper. I subscribe to an online one now. Even though the price is reasonable I'm thinking of canceling. The moving ads get to me. Deep sigh. Thanks for saying what I was thinking!
Thank you for the tips!❤ It went a little fast though. In the future, will you please do regular videos where we can replay a segment and that we can save? I am moving, and I realized the interior walls of my closets are dirty. I have decided to do the mop thing on my walls (they did not clean my apartment). It is good to know that someone else has vetted this, and that it works!😊
1. Line tall shelving (tops of kitchen cabinets) with newspaper to make dusting easier 2. Clean you oven using s dishwasher tablet on a wet sponge. It’s the quickest way to clean your oven 3. Clean walls ad baseboards easily with a damp microfiber mop 4. To leave stainless steel shining Buff baby oil into the front . 5. Remove rust from stainless steel with lemon + baking soda. The citric acid in this mix is also amazing at cleaning your sink and making it shine 6. Whiten dingy whites by soaking in denture tablets. 7. Remove makeup stains quickly with shaving cream, 8. Remove oil stains from clothes using dishwashing liquid and baking soda. 9. sprinkle baking soda on musty bathmats before washing to deodorize. 10. color code keys with nail polish to differentiate them.
We use regular paper on top of our cupboards too. But for the oven we use a specific oven cleaner that you spray on let it activate by heating the oven up and it should clean really fast. I don't know the brand since we need a new one and we're also Italian soooo... It may be different.
@@HI-lq4vl I get your point so thanks for illuminating us w/ correct term to use . It is possible English is not the @Candy Cane ‘s native language so perhaps Candy didn’t know this . Maybe it is a term other generations used in the past which wasn’t considered offensive. [ie. Gal instead of woman, Oriental -which is way offensive- instead of Asian, or calling a AA person unknowingly ‘Negro’ because you’re 85 and that was considered neutral, or saying garbage man or garbage person instead of waste management worker . 🙂🪴
That hack with baby oil us so wrong. Oil attracts dust and other stuff in the air (hair, fluff, motes, etc). Don’t do it unless you want a fridge door covered in nasty stuff.
I use oil on my sink and faucet (vegetable oil tho) when cleaning it. It’s important to buff off the oil with a clean towel to finish. Otherwise yea, you’d leave residue behind. If you buff it off properly, it works great!
This is great ! Thanks for sharing ! If you didn’t want to “dirty “ your nail polish you can also use the color coded key covers to differentiate your keys.
As a former nurse, I used powdered dishwasher soap on my whites to get them blinding white! Works great!! As for keys, every key I have is a different shape so I know what they go to! 😅 I've always had excellent luck with using Dawn dish soap for laundry needs! Especially if your shirts have yellow armpit stains or "ring around the collar" from dirt, sweat and oil! Just be sure to rub it into the fabric really well, a stiff old toothbrush works pretty well. I let it sit for awhile before washing though. One thing I could use advice on right now is washing walls and ceiling and windows in a place where there was heavy smoking for years. Seems like that stuff is layered on & can never seem to get all the way off! The ceiling is textured and it totally shreds towels, microfiber towels and those foam mops! I'm not a fan of textured walls & especially ceilings! Just about ready to rent one of those big, loud , hot water high pressure washers that take graffiti off! 🤣
I’ve been dealing with the smoke on walls & ceilings lately, too! I’ve done way too much research lol. The top 2 things I’ve found are Odoban. You can google it for instructions. And a big gallon jug was like $9 or $10 at dollar general. And, the scrubbing bubbles in the orange citrus scent is fantastic!! I also found this at dollar general. Just spray on the wall and let it set for a couple of minutes and I wipe it off with a damp microfiber cloth. I haven’t tackled the ceilings yet and mine are textured as well so will be trying different variations of these two cleaners up there. Good luck!
@@c.satchell8561 I did this too but just the vinegar didn’t get the dark tar stains off. But I’ve wiped the clean walls with vinegar to help freshen them!
When I was a teenager in the 90s, I worked at a fast food restaurant where everything in the kitchen was stainless steel. At night when it would get slow, we'd buff everything with baby oil. It worked!
Mixing citric acid and baking soda makes no sense in chemical way they neutralise each other so loose power. Use one of them, depending on the results you want!
This video reminded me I have a mop I can use to clean the walls. I bought it for the kitchen but our rental has low ceilings and for whatever reason the manufacturer of the mop has it so it has to be upside down to put the water canister in. So it doesn’t work out since our mop doesn’t fit upside down in the kitchen. If I just wet the pad in the bathroom sink or if a swifter wet pad fits it’ll work out. Thanks again. 😊
I don't recommend putting news paper on the cabinets. My parents did that and the grease that deposited on the cabinets made the news papers to stick to them and it doesn't come off.
Shaving cream the white poofy kind not gel works great & than a little vinger & water mixture rinse & dry after the door are dry rub/buff a fabric sheet over the shower doors. *Glue a clear thin replacement earring back an the top rim of keys then you feel the correct key in the dark along with different color nail polish
My subs too! A product called Wiemans stainless still cleaner is just mineral oil. But its molecularly changed so it ...I dont know what....it doesn absorb but it disappears. You do rub and rub a bit to clean then buff to shine. I even use it on my plastic parts of Bunn coffee maker and counter tops to resist stains after I clean. I use Magic calcium removier so then using the Weimans makes the next cleaning easier. For laundry just put the baking soda in the wash but I moslty use Mule team borax. Soak overnight with your detergent and borax or stubborn stains and odor. I use the amount I would for a full load so then dump the pail into washer and add more laundry. Most of the tips ok. Just adding info to what happens, what cleaners do. Shaving cream? I dont know about that.
Buff the oil off to get the shine. I do this as the final process to clean my sink and faucet. Although I use a plain vegetable oil for that. The buffing off part is important.
I actually took my huge area rug to the car wash and washed it and then laid it out on the driveway and flipped it often so it could dry, make sure there are no wrinkles in the rug as it’s drying once it’s dry then I rolled it up and laid it back down after bringing it inside I put a box fan on high just to make sure it was completely dry because I also had wood floors and this worked well for me. My rug was not as expensive as some although I paid about $800 for it but I had a client who spent $86,000 for one so mine may have been considered cheap and it held up really well.
Easy off oven spray. Spray it, put in paperbag. Let it sit 24 hrs. Wipes/rinses right off no scrubbing. Then wash your pan like normal to get the spray off. HTH Do outside.
Heres another hack once you paint your keys leave the original keys next to them. Don't nt let them air dry and forget the next day to take them, and lock yourself out
